#tutorial review

In this blog I’ll be reviewing my pixel animation tutorial from my UCA workshop!

To kick things off, I just wanted to say that I’m not very good at explaining myself in most situations, tutorials included... So at the start I was a tad worried it wouldn’t be up to scratch... However I soon learnt that by making the steps short and easy to follow would make the tutorial better, as well as adding a friendly tone to it!

From this tutorial I learned how to give a friendly tone to the steps, as well as how to make it easy to follow! However I found that writing out the steps and explaining them was quite difficult.

I enjoyed adding my own little bits and pieces into the tutorial, as well as drawing out the steps! It’s really nice for me to see others taking my advice and turning it into something beautiful!

Breakfast With Unity: Oxygen Meter

Things Covered:

Creating an oxygen meter slider.

Creating a C# script for that to go down when you're underwater.

Creating a move up and down script.

Simple and cute. Very similar to the health bar, except you regain oxygen with getting out of water.

Breakfast With Unity: Healthbar

Things Covered:

Using a slider to make a health bar!

Making a script for health to go down.

Using debug.log to figure out unity's name for the slider.

Adding spawner script in, so there are things to take the player's health down.

Breakfast With Unity: Interacts

Things Covered:

Writing a C# script so a thing will turn on when a button is pressed in its proximity.

Writing a C# script for the thing being pressed so that it will do that.

Breakfast With Unity: GridSpawner

Things Covered: 

Creating a C# script to spawn things in a grid.

C# scripts for spawn on button and move forward

Create a forceball to apply those two scripts and ContinuousExplosionForce script (made in this video) to it.

I was originally going to try and go through all the Breakfast with Unity videos because I like completion. But, with a total of 67 videos I decided I would rather skip around to the ones that interest me the most. I found this to be simply delightful.

Breakfast With Unity: Organizing Scripts

 Things Covered:

How to add new list menu folders for scripts.

How to rename scripts (name them differently in dropdown than in file).

How to add headers / spacing within a script's display.

Breakfast With Unity: Physics Follower

Things Covered:

Using two scripts to get an object to follow another object (ends on 1st person character controller being followed b the sphere).

+ Conceptually neat. - Focused on how to tweak things without a strong explanation for what does what.

Breakfast With Unity: Time Slow

Things Covered:

Making a script for time slow (everything slows down to the pace and for as long as you want it to).

Making a spawner script (spawning spheres).

Making a button that you can push for timeslow to happen.

Making a script for audio to also timeslow.

+ Gives you a strong sense of what you can play with and tweak. - Doesn't outline what he's doing before he does it.

Overall:

Unity3d 4.3 SPECIAL: Learn 2d with Max! - Cooking With Unity LIVE 

Things Covered:

Unity 4.3

Animations (including transitions)

Getting a character walking around

Jumping

The project he starts off poking at is this one: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/11228